Supervisor, Inspections

Company: LyondellBasell
Location: Westlake
Posted on: May 28, 2023

Job Description:

LyondellBasell


Basic Function

The Inspections Supervisor provides support to the Olefins, LLDPE, and LDPE manufacturing facilities, as well as the Utilities Unit at the Lake Charles Louisiana Integrated Polyethylene Facility. This role is responsible for ensuring the long-term fixed equipment health of key manufacturing units, which are critical assets to the company's financial success. Responsibilities include supervision of LYB inspectors, as well as coordination of contract inspectors at the LIP JV site supporting mechanical integrity and reliability improvement efforts. This position is also responsible for ensuring that all stationary equipment mechanical integrity activities meet or exceed the requirements of local regulations, corporate inspection, engineering and maintenance standards, site inspection procedures, and the inspection workflow processes.


Roles & Responsibilities

• Assigns unit responsibilities to selected inspectors and supports their efforts for routine, outage, turnaround, and program work.
• Improves group performance through implementation of work process and system enhancements.
• Monitors employee performance, including work quality, time utilization, and behaviors, while holding employees accountable for performance.
• Provides clear expectations, feedback, and mentoring to improve individual performance.
• Ensures the quality of preparation for mechanical integrity inspections for outages and turnarounds at LIP JV.
• Ensures that inspectors are appropriately utilizing company analysis tools, developing inspection plans, coordinating inspections, evaluating inspection results, developing run/repair/replace recommendations, tracking inspection recommendations to closure, and keeping all inspection data current, evergreen and completed by due date.
• Oversees the use and development of RBI for guiding inspections that are subject to that method.
• Ensures efficient use of contract resources to complete equipment/piping inspections for routine and program efforts.
• Reviews selected inspection reports for accuracy and initiates recommendations from the resultant findings.
• Prepares annual, program, and special initiative budgets and controls to the resulting plan.
• Oversees site mechanical integrity programs, including CUI/CUF/Paint and ensures cost tracking and forecasting are completed.
• Participates in incident investigations and Root Cause Failure Analyses.
• Coordinates periodic dialogs with maintenance, operations, team leads, and production maintenance coordinators to discuss inspection issues in their assigned areas.
• Utilizes inspection management systems effectively as well as the maintenance management system SAP.
• Reviews Global Asset Integrity Standard (GAIS) for Fixed Equipment for Operational Excellence, corporate inspection and maintenance procedures, LIP JV site specific procedures and standards, and ASME codes.
  Area of Expertise, Requirements
  The individual must have basic proficiency and knowledge in the following areas with the ability to develop into a subject matter expert in particular areas:
  • Inspection and repair standards (API, ASME, NBIC and state/local regulations)
  • Inspection techniques, API/CWI inspections, and evaluating inspection results per industry codes and standards
  • Mechanisms leading to equipment failure such as corrosion, erosion, stress corrosion cracking, fretting, etc
  • Fixed Equipment design and maintenance (piping, flange make-up, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, etc.)
  • Component failure analysis
  • Fitness for Service analysis
  • Reliability Engineering concepts
  • Reliability data analysis techniques
  • Ability to apply computer software tools (SAP, Microsoft Office, Meridium)
    
    
    Min. Qualifications
    
    
    Education and Work Experience
    Candidate should possess one of the following minimum requirements:
    • BS degree in Mechanical Engineering (or equivalent degree) and a minimum of 8 years of fixed equipment engineering experience in the refining, petrochemical, chemical process, or power generation industries.
    • Or API 510 and API 570 Certifications and a minimum of 15 years of fixed equipment inspection experience in the refining, petrochemical, chemical process, or power generation industries.
      
      
      Preferred Qualifications
      
      
      
      • Previous supervisory experience of direct reports
        Languages English, additional language preferred
        Other skills
        
        • The critical competencies for this position are communication, teamwork, problem solving and decision-making, results orientation, initiative, relationship building, and technological orientation
        • Strong interpersonal skills; Able to communicate well within the team as well as with other discipline personnel
        • Proficient with MS Office
        • Working knowledge of Damage Mechanisms, RBI, and Inspection Techniques
          
          
          Competencies
          
          Builds effective teams
          Collaborates
          Cultivates innovation
          Customer focus
          Demonstrates courage
          Drives results
          Ensures accountability
          Instills trust and exemplifies integrity
          We are LyondellBasell - a leader in the global chemical industry creating solutions for everyday sustainable living. Through advanced technology and focused investments, we are enabling a circular and low carbon economy. Across all we do, we aim to unlock value for our customers, investors and society. As one of the world's largest producers of polymers and a leader in polyolefin technologies, we develop, manufacture and market high-quality and innovative products for applications ranging from sustainable transportation and food safety to clean water and quality healthcare. For more information, please visit www.lyondellbasell.com or follow @LyondellBasell on LinkedIn.
          Must be at least 18 years of age and must be legally authorized to work in the United States (US) on a permanent basis without visa sponsorship.
          LyondellBasell does not accept or retain unsolicited r--sum--s or phone calls and/or respond to them or to any third party representing job seekers.
          LyondellBasell is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. The US EEO is the Law poster is available here.
          
          Nearest Major Market: Lake Charles

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